This is not a troll-post; I am genuinely curious about why this is the case. When I asked DeepSeek AI some Western propaganda questions like “Is Taiwan a country” and “What happened on Tiananmen Square 1989”, it refuses to answer.
This is strange because on other Chinese sites like Baidu, you can easily search these topics and get answers from the non-Western, Chinese point of view that are very educational, yet DeepSeek for some reason flags these questions. I’ve only tested this out with the English version since I unfortunately am not fluent in Chinese.
Does anyone have any possible explanation for why this may be the case?
Edit: After some further investigation, I’m seeing that the AI’s political views tend to be pretty liberal and only a little to the left of ChatGPT. In this context, I can see why it refuses to answer these questions in an attempt to prevent the spread of disinformation.
What does it say if you ask about ‘June fourth’?
Seems like there’s indeed a restriction, even on the paid version
It feels a bit weird to be so sensitive about a failed color revolution, but it’s perhaps because they’re taking it so seriously(, and with an economic success,) that they didn’t have another one in decades(, Hong-Kong and separatists excluded, in 2014 as well).
There are ongoing manifestations for the last months in Serbia/‘what remains of socialist Yugoslavia after we(sterners) destroyed it’, but we’re not mediatically supporting them and they’re hopefully not important enough.
Interesting. And there’s the answer, I suppose. It’s been decided that answering some questions is unhelpful or harmful.
You probably already knew the answer when you asked me though(, despite DeepSeek’s previous answer on Tiananmen Square).
I hoped it would give a better answer to June fourth, though.